Dave on I got myself one for work, and love it so much that I bought myself one for me. It broke in August 2022, this is how I got it fixed or not. See ~/Documents/samsung. Mine is awesome blue and came with 64GB of RAM, I am very pleased with it.
Dave on Will the 2022 Cost of Living crisis led to mortgage defaults and bank failures? Once more some notes,
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Dave on I have just lost an Ebay auction, I was out bid in the final seconds of the auction. I need to do better and these notes might help me.
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Dave on Much of the campaigning in favour of the current wave of strikes poses them as defensive, and quotes the excess in profits being made. I wonder what the stats say, the National Income consists of wages, rents and profits. Here are my notes …
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Dave on Ursula von der Leyen, became the 1st woman President of the EU’s college of commissioners on 1st Dec 2019. Her appointment was controversial because she was not one of the spitzencanditaten. The record of her commission is documented on wikipedia. I became interested in this when trying to understand how and why the CoFoE was launched. Here are my notes on her appointment.
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Dave on While Rishi Sunak is busy defending borrowing based deficits in the Tory Leadership election, he gave a lecture earlier in the year, setting out his modern supply theory motivations. This is half bollocks, a quarter some interesting problem definitions, leading to some disappointing solutions. Here are my notes.
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Dave on Shall I go to La Rochelle, my notes and links …
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Dave on The government issued a consultation on the Data Protection law; it was commonly felt that they were attempting to allow itself to monetise the personal data of citizens, especially through the NHS data files. Whether after their response, it is felt to be so threatening is another matter. Here are my notes …
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Dave on I have a couple of notes on defence policy on this wiki. All recent white papers have emphasised that the defence capability we build is onky capable of success if working with allies. The primary military alliance is of course NATO, which has over the last 30 years concerned itself with “out of theatre” operations. It has also been challenged by speeches of the pervious President, Trump and the actions of President Biden in the evacuation from Afghanistan. The USA may no longer be a reliable ally for European defence.
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Dave on I had no idea that the British Army had multiple long range rocket launchers. Here are my notes. …
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Dave on I decided to finally make some bread. I started with one of Jack’s recipes, obviously the second will be better than the first. It tasted fine, I made a bit of mess and the kneading could have gone better.
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Dave on In Chile, they are developing a new constitution; they have used citizen’s assemblies to develop the constitution. They will vote on it later this year. Here is a guide on the draft, in Spanish and in English, by Google translate. I know! Legal documents shouldn’t be translated.
Dave on The United Nations conducts a quinquennial review of its member states compliance with the UN Declaration on Human Rights. Who knew?
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Dave on Is the EU sclerotic by initial design?
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Dave on For those interested in Labour’s new proscription rules this is the central list of Prohibited Acts …
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